Sorry if this has been covered but: it says in the blurb that some activities outside races can increase your race score. Do we know what they are?
I am planning to try it out today. I’ll just ride, then do a couple of flat out15s sprints and end the ride and see if it has made a difference. Then I’ll try a ride again but hit some sprint segments all the way through.
This is so so silly. 30 sec power wins the race. My team are all lower than they ever should be now. Three are moved from A to B and one to C pen with ZRS. That’s old A’s in three cats with 10 wkg+ numbers for 30 seconds. What could go wrong.
And before I get told again, of course they will move up quickly! Doesn’t change the fact that someone else’s race is getting destroyed by approved "sandbaggers entering races the game recommends.
30 second power was putting Cat Ds with good sprints in the same pens as Cat Bs racers without a good sprint so they were 10 minutes behind at the finish line.
i think by the end of the next week lot drop riders , will cat them self up. me to. i will be back into C group. i was 246 now 290 , on my way back into the C soon.
I think Zwift are moving the pens in January so any old school Bs will be in at least the new C pens then hopefully if their scores don’t climb and get them there before then.
We are saying the same thing but an individualized seed score should get folks there quicker.
The past month of racing in group D 180-350 has been some of the best I have experienced.
Maybe Zwift just needs to reorganize racing every 2-3 years and change the power interval and cat definitions to favor different riders.
Maybe the error is the search for the one perfect system.
The world doesn’t have experience with amateurs that race 3-6 times per week, every week.
That’s why zmap needs to be weighted heavily in as well. 30 second power and 5 minute power rule all but ftp. 10 minute power is stupid as it won’t factor in 99% of 30 minute races and many can get over almost any non mountain climb in less time than that. I try to do the least watts on climbs to save my legs as I’m a sprinter. I also will self select against long climbs so now what?
30 sec + zmap + minimum ftp value. All that’s been accomplished is a return to A- E pens based on long duration efforts and a shambolic experience for many until it actually gets sorted. I can easily sandbag 10 minute power and still do 10wkg for 30 seconds without actively trying to sandbag!